How To Install A Shower Door Latch

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How to install a shower door latch.

Delta offers a variety of sliding and hinged doors. Prepare the doors by installing roller and if applicable handle towel bar hardware. Hanging the door panels. If your shower door is swinging open it might be time to replace the magnet inside of the latch.

Swinging shower doors are held in place using a magnet set in the latch of the door. I bought my latch at one of these stores as it was failing to keep door closed at showertime. The make and model of the door is not important since this video is more about the proc. Installing a shower door is usually a very straightforward project.

Place the rollers on the top frame flange of both door panels and secure them with lock washers and machine screws. For the frame you ll need to install tracks at the bottom sides and top of your shower opening using sealant and screws. Go to store that sells shower doors. Stabilize the assembly by drilling a pilot hole and driving a inch screw through the outside face of the base track wherever it meets a vertical frame member.

Most pivot doors are designed to be reversible and can be installed with the pivots on the right or left side of the enclosure. Replacing knobs handles or pulls on a frameless glass shower door is a simple project that can be completed in minutes. Purchase the correct water supply components. Install the door handles that come with the kit.

Repeat step 18 to install the outer shower door panel into the outer door channel with the towel bar handle facing outward. When installing or replacing they recommends that you make sure to. Mine has 2 screws with a white nylon or plastic catch that clicks. Installing the door panels is easiest from outside the shower.

Unlike installing pulls or handles on wooden cabinets inner and outer handles are aligned to predrilled installation holes in the door then attached to each other. Align the outside door handle with the holes in the doorframe. Take a close up picture and show your camera photo to the clerk at the store. Learning how to install a shower door is simply a matter of the right tools and good technique.

Attach the interior handle and tighten the setscrews. Read all the instructions completely before beginning. Installing a swinging shower door using some unconventional methods. Step 20 install the door bumpers in the vertical track channels by snapping the bumper tabs into the predrilled holes in the channels.